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webstrand on July 17, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Run TypeScript code without worrying about configu...

Last I knew, it did the transpilation itself so that it could handle module path resolution manually.

basetensucks on July 17, 2025 [–]

It does more, it also includes a compatibility layer allowing you to require ESM packages in CJS. It's quite handy!

andrus on July 17, 2025 | [–]

Don’t recent Node.js releases support this already? require(esm) was back ported to Node.js 20 in February

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